Feb 02 2009
Taking a Tour with Google Earth
Lots of big news from Google Earth today! Google Earth is free software that provides global satellite photography.
A team of scientists, some of which were from BirdLife, were using Google Earth to locate pristine wildlife areas, when they came across a forested mountain that was topped off with rock. This mountain turned out to be an unmapped, but locally known, mountain called Mount Mabu in Mozambique. By using Google Earth the team was able to view the other side of the mountain to determine the extent of the forest. This provided the scientists with enough information to make trips into the area and discover many new species and a tremendous amount of other species known to be endangered, making Mount Mabu a priority for conservationists.
And if that weren’t enough…Google Earth is now preparing to take us down deep with Google Ocean! These new additions to the website will now allow users to take virtual tips along the ocean floors! This would be an excellent tool for scientists to gather data for the weather, environment and submarine information.
As added bonus, maybe we’ll finally locate Nessie!
~Wind
Pretty cool technology exists to do that, I just hope they don’t rape the area now. Maybe it was good it was hidden all this time.
Interesting post.
Sandy